--- title: ‘Wilt thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday nigh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Wilt thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday night? for then will I come and fetch thee, and bear thee away with me in a sack, and thou must lay all thy gold and silver, and whatsoever thou may’st possess of this world’s wealth, in a heap in thy best parlour.’ Who acts: thou, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:9:139 # text = ‘Wilt thou hold thyself in readiness to travel away next Monday night? for then will I come and fetch thee, and bear thee away with me in a sack, and thou must lay all thy gold and silver, and whatsoever thou may’st possess of this world’s wealth, in a heap in thy best parlour.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 readiness readiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 26 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 39 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 whatsoever whatsoever ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 48 nsubj _ _ 47 may’st may' ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 possess possess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 51 det _ _ 51 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’s 's PART POS _ 51 case _ _ 53 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 58 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 61 nmod:poss _ _ 60 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 61 amod _ _ 61 parlour parlour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | future | thou | thyself | | readiness | | with me; in a sack; in a heap; in thy best parlour; bear *obl*; away *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme thou=Eventuality | | 2 | **travel away** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | night | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | future | I | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fetch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thee | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | must | thou | thy gold and silver | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Result | | 6 | **possess** | | thou | | | | | of this world's wealth; whatsoever *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/140/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)